110 thoughts on “2019 Game 142: Bronchos at Twins”

1. This is here.

2. Schoop, GIDP.

3. Let’s go, Jorge. There are ducks on the pond.

4. when in doubt, load the bases and trust the odds

   1. Fly out instead of walking in a run.

5. geez Eddie, he's not throwing strikes, and that fouled off pitch was a ball

   1. And the out was ball 4. He's so damn frustrating

   2. d@mmit Eddie, can you even recognize a strike? He never threw you one!

      1. The foul ball was possibly a strike because of the 2-0 count and how umpires expand the zone.

         1. With Laz Diaz behind the plate, you can never be sure.

            1. *watches strike one ball four to Lindor*
               Very true.

6. Rosario today and Schoop.

   1. And now would be a super good time.

      1. I thought he liked these situations?

         1. Never doubt the bases loaded.

         2. The confirmation bias about Rosario in Twins Territory is insanely strong

            1. Eddie batting. 338 with RISP this year and has an .875 OPS in high leverage situations.

         3. Apparently past tense is important there.

7. Ball five, Eddie...

8. Dang it.

9. Le Menu Du sour: Buttermilk & sour cream Belgian waffles with ginger syrup & butter, plus a couple rashers of hickory-smoked thick-cut bacon. Mango smoothie with agave nectar, lime juice, coconut water, Ron Zacapa 23, & red chili flake.

   More jangle than John Fogerty's Rickenbacker.

   1. Out to dinner with friends in a bit.

   2. brats (w/Muenster & bell peppers), grilled veggies & baby potatoes, corn on the cob, and a Seagram's strawberry daiquiri

10. GOML, Puig.

11. Neither of those strikes to Arraez were strikes. But he arraez's above.

12. OFFS.

13. I love Arraez.

14. Hook slide, Miguel.

15. Really, Arraez did not advance?

    1. Yeah, the ball was hit right at him but he should have gone

16. This is the Uno Inning all of a sudden.

17. Come on, Bizzaro World -- Schoop RBIs!

    1. yeah, not happening

18. Well, shit. That inning sucked.

    1. I feel like we've been saying that a lot lately

19. Schoop, naturally, grounds out.

20. Let's take the contact play out back and shoot it

21. Odorizzi with a convincing demonstration he's ready for the postseason.

    1. And one more game where the (missing) offense forces the pitchers to be supermen

       1. Offense has picked up the pitchers this year far more often than vice versa.

22. La Tortuga truly is the greatest

23. Thought Polanco had it

24. For variety, we didn't throw it to the backstop. We threw it to the dugout.

25. FFS.

26. Pretty sure I can guess what Odorizzi’s thinking.

27. It'd be great to have a breakout inning here, because this other crap is annoying.

28. Rosario’s head isn’t in this game.

    1. Morny agrees

29. I'm glad we got the call, but I really don't understand why that's not reviewable.

30. Arraez might need to hit a triple to score Sanó.

31. Crap. He doesn’t do that much.

32. Wow, brutal call

33. WTF Laz Diaz.

34. I have a feeling Dazzle would like to have said something stronger than "My gosh."

35. What in the damn hell was that bullshit?

36. wasting another fine start

37. It's aggravating that everyone who follows baseball knows who the worst umpires are, and yet baseball refuses to ever do anything about it.

    1. Baseball can't fire union umpires

       1. Are you sure about that? I mean, I don't know, so it could be true, but I've never heard that they can't fire an umpire, period. I'm sure the union would raise a stink, and it might even end up in court, so I can see why MLB might not want the hassle. But does the union agreement really say that MLB can't fire an umpire, even for blatant, gross incompetence?

          1. And they certainly don't have to assign incompetent umpires to an important series like this.

             1. Or an incompetent crew

    2. Probably like how Chris Davis is the worst baseball player, but still better than anyone else.

       1. But are people like Laz Diaz and Angel Hernandez really better than anyone else? I suspect there are AAA umpires who would be better, but we don't know because they're not given the chance.

          1. Probably. Those two aren't in the bottom 5 of umpires getting calls wrong (though Joe West is). Data shows the younger umpires tend to get significantly more calls right than older. And they all hover between 90 and 95 percent correct, which has improved since 10 years ago.

38. This umpiring crew needs some Imodium.

39. Tie game!

40. Schoop! Fuck these umpires

41. Chubby people can run, too!

42. Man, just a little to the left. Nice job Johnny

43. we know what's next: walk the bases full

    1. shoulda stuck to the plan!

44. I hope he doesn't walk Garver.

    1. Glad he didn't

    2. He didn't

       1. Much better narrating than in Scandalmakers

45. Winner!!!!!!!

46. GARVER!!!!!!!

47. SAUCE!

48. Woooooooooooooo000000000

49. SAUCED!

    1. That was intensely awesome

50. Garver is now tied for the franchise record for homers hit by a catcher in a single season, once set by a singles hitter.

    1. Junior Ortiz?

       1. I said singles, plural.

          1. I joak, but Ortiz was not as bad as I remember him. I had mentally lumped him in with Sal Butera, Tom Nieto, & Matt Walbeck, but Ortiz — and, somehow, Lenny Webster— weren’t actually that inept at the plate.

             Catcher	PA in MN	OPS in MN
             Salas	718	103
             Webster	317	90
             Ortiz	338	85
             Blanco	353	60
             Butters Sr.	553	59
             Walbeck	1008	47
             Butters Jr.	534	36
             Nieto	183	18
             Miller	12	-100

             1. Corky!

                1. I showed Mrs Hayes a picture of him in his second stint with the Reds. She guessed his name was “Bocephus Jennings,” and about popped some stitches when I said, “His name...is Corky Miller.”

                2. That's Corky "Corky".

    2. If you count DH and PH home runs, then he only now tied. As a catcher he passed the previous record holder when he reached 24.

       1. Fair point.

    3. Franchise record was Battey, not a singles hitter, and it was 26 HRs

       1. Who?

          1. right on cue

             1. Far be it from me to leave a softball hanging

51. Ah, crap. Now Romo’s hurt.

    1. He seems better now. Hopefully just a twisted ankle

52. Can you spot the pitch Diaz rung Cron up on?

    

    1. Even the union couldn't dispute that

       1. The umpire’s union gives unions a bad name.

          1. The NFLPA gives unions a bad name. Diaz and Hernandez just make the umpires union look bad.

53. That was well fielded by Rogers

54. If I were Rocco, I might be tempted to get tossed during this at bat.

55. Given precedent, how was that not a strike?

56. Wins are wins.

    1. Garver should be the first catcher to earn a win

       1. After the way it went before that... it kind of feels like he single-handedly saved our season.

          1. I don't disagree with this

57. Even Diaz couldn't eff that strike three up

58. Twins extend the HR lead to 9.

59. There's been a lot of great moments this season, but it will be tough to top Garver's homer. Tie game against the Indians in front of a packed house with all the emotion of Pineda's suspension and with the Francona in full matchup bullpen mode with MLB's best bullpen. That was fun.

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